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W. H. JOHNSON 81: T. KRUSE. URINAL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IILLIAM II. JOHNSON AND THEODORE KRUSE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

URINAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,118, dated May 26, 1891.

Application led May 22, 1890.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. JOHN` soN and TIIEoDoRE KEUsE, of Indianapolis, county ot' Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Urinals; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters and figures refer to like parts.

Our invention relates to the construction of urinals, and will be understood from the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front View, partly in section, of our device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the trough and wall to which it is attached. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same, one end being in section.

This particular device is intended to be used in connection with the dry closet invented by us and described in an application liled contemporaneously herewith, and Fig. l shows the same arrangement of vault, liue, grating, and shelves which is shown in such application.

In detail,t is a trough, which is made in the shape indicated, having double backs b ZJ', with an opening 1 at the top, through which currents of air may pass, and an opening 2 at the bottom, through which theliquid falls into the bottom of the trough and aircurrents are admitted. The space between the two backs of the trough constitutes a pipe. along which the offensive odors are carried to the ventilating liue fr, with which the trough is connected, either directly, as shown in Fig. 3, or by means of a smaller pipe p, as shown in Fig. 1.

f is the iioor through which the waste-pipes `w connected to the trough pass, and are either connected with a sewer or with a vault containing the devices shown in Fig. l. These comprise the metal grating t, overlapping shelves s s', formed of corrugated iron, each being of less width than the vault to the walls of which they are connected, and below these shelves are heating-pipes p', connected to a heater h, which is located at the bottom of the Ventilating-Hue. The bottom ofthe vault is formed of concrete or cement c, laid directly upon the soil. The heater is open at the outside of the wall of the iiue for replenishing the re. The object of this heater and its connected devices is to carry theheat Serial No. 352 ,795 (No model.)

throughout the vault for the purpose of drying the air and inducing a current in the direction of the arrows up the Ventilating-flue o. By the peculiar construction of the trough t it will be seen that any offensive odors are carried away by the air-currents between the two backs of the trough and along into the Ventilating-flue o, with which the trough is connected. The heated air from the vault below evaporates the liquid that falls through the grating and upon the shelves S s', and carries this, with all odors, up the same flue with which the trough is connected,I thus securing a rapid and complete evaporation of all liquid matter and the carrying away of all offensive odors and vapors both in the pipe between the backs of the trough and from the vault below through the liue fu out to the open air.

Vhat we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

l. In a urinal, a 'hollow trough t, composed of front and back pieces b b', having an upper longitudinal opening l for the escape of vapors above and a lower longitudinal opening 2 for the escape of fluids and vapors below, such trough having one or more wastepipes w connected beneath and passing through the floor, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a urinal, a hollow trough t, composed of front and back pieces l) b', having longitudinal openings l above and longitudinal openings 2 below, and one or more waste-pipes w, connected beneath, passing through the ii'oor, such trough connected at its inner end to and in combination with a draft-flue, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a urinal, a hollow trough t, composed of front and back pieces b b', having longitudinal openings 1 above and longitudinal openings 2 below, and one or more waste-pipes w, connected beneath, passing through the floor, such trough connected at its inner end by a smaller pipe to and in combination with a draft-flue, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 20th day of May, 1890.

IVM. II. JOHNSON. TIIEODORE KRUSE. Witnesses:

H. D. NEALY, E. B. GRIFFITH.

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